Category: Job

American Standard Version (ASV):
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

King James Version (KJV):
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

American Standard Version (ASV):
With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

King James Version (KJV):
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

American Standard Version (ASV):
Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

King James Version (KJV):
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

American Standard Version (ASV):
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

King James Version (KJV):
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

King James Version (KJV):
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

King James Version (KJV):
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

King James Version (KJV):
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

King James Version (KJV):
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

King James Version (KJV):
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

American Standard Version (ASV):
Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

King James Version (KJV):
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.